The unhinged seditious Malignant Fascist's frivolous $10 billion lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Company over its documentary about the MF's role in instigating the January 6 violent insurrection is coming back to bite him. As we've noted, the presiding judge has ruled that BBC is entitled to get the MF's financial records, since he claimed that he had been financially harmed by the documentary. Now, BBC is attempting to get members of the MF's crime family in court as witnesses. From Politico:
"The BBC is seeking to subpoena President Donald Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr., his daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner in connection with a $10 billion defamation lawsuit the president is pressing against the U.K. broadcaster.
Lawyers for the BBC say the Trump family members 'without question have personal knowledge' about President Trump’s intentions in delivering the speech at the heart of the case: his Jan. 6, 2021, address to supporters at the Ellipse as the Capitol attack was getting underway.
The president’s lawsuit alleges that a BBC documentary aired in the U.K. in 2024 defamed him by splicing together distant parts of the speech to make it sound like he was endorsing violence. The BBC has apologized for the editing but denies that it is valid grounds for a suit.
Drawing largely on testimony gathered by the House Jan. 6 Committee, the BBC’s attorneys say Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump were present as the president revised his speech and were on hand at the Ellipse as he spoke. The network’s lawyers also say Kushner drafted a proposed statement for the president condemning the violence."
As BBC's lawyers attempted to serve Donald Jr., Ivanka, and Jared Kushner with subpoenas, they were turned back by the Secret Service. They're now asking the court to allow service by mail to the lawyers for the three:
"In a motion filed Friday in federal court in Miami, the BBC’s attorneys said the president’s lawyers also refused to accept the subpoenas. The network is asking the court to authorize service by mail or to order that service through President Trump’s attorneys is adequate."
They can't duck subpoenas indefinitely and eventually will be put under oath to answer questions about what they knew of the MF's sinister and violent intentions on and leading up to January 6.
(photos: AP/Alex Brandon/Richard Drew)
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